The Sun. — London, England, 1826-12-06 00:00:00

tPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 'We recommend to attention the opinion of Lord Chief Justice Best, as pronounced in the cause of" Stockley v. Clement," reported in this day's,jountal, on the subject of libel. His Lordship says, according to . one account," that if no circumstances are laid before the jury from which they can infer malice, the action is not maintainable." — According to another cc An action•for libel, unless ma , lice could be proved, is not maintainable." It is clear, therefore, that malice is not to be inferred from the word ing or expression of that which is adduced as a libel. In deed, the character of no act whatever is established or proved from the act itself, or its evasequences. A man re ceives a ;Aortal wound from the stroke of a hatchet: this is moder,.according to the doctrine of some Judges. The Malice . is inferred from the blow, and its fatal consequences. No, we argue, and so it should appear argues Lord Chief Justice Best; prove, or.prove in part, or show by proba bilities, that the intention to destroy, or some motive to de : troy, existed previously, or at the mement When the - wound was inflicted, sind then the person by whom it was inflicted may be a murderer ; but the simple act of tak ing away the life of another does not constitute that most heinous of all crimes: neither does the mere act of writing and publishing that a man has committed this or that crime that he has been sentenced to the gal lies for example, that he ought not to he admitted into this kingdom, constitute a calumnious or defamatory libel--; (libellus, a little book). On the contrary, a man who soda forth a publication to this effect, may have perform cl very praiseworthy act ; and a jury that leaves a de fendant who has dene this to the mercy of judges, upon a mere quibble of law, does not do its ditty in a manner be eoming.E»glishmen, With regard to the stupid verbiage set up in the place o? Argument, the truth is injurious, be ts:Mge it may lead to it breach of the peace, this is absolutely cotttradietei.l by feet and common sense ; it being noto liens that Almost the only way to keep a scoundrel quiet, end to .prevent hint front doing mischief, is to publish the truth of him, to make hint known. And if it be said that by to doing you expose him to danger, why, we ask in reply, are all the precautions of policy to be directed to wards keeping him in safety against other people, and none towards keeping others in safety against him' If the publication be false, the case is differents--the than slandered has his remedy.--Times. Much stress, we observe, has been laid in some quarters tut the expressions and overt-acts of the French and Spa nish Sovereigns, in relation to the hostilities carried on by the rebellious troops of Portugal against the Goiernment of the Princess Regent. The King of Spain, it is said, issued orders to the Seanish Authorities near the frontier, that the rebels from Portugal shOuld not be succoured nor proteeted, but disartntd, removed from the frontier, and totally dispersed. It is further stated, that his Cathnlic Majesty penned with his own hand very positive injunc tions of neutrality to his officers along the 'whole line of provinces:by which the territory of Portugal is enveloped. We are likewise told that, on the part of his Majesty Charles X. of France, his Ambassador has been recalled from Madrid ; and, moreover, that a menace has been held out to the, Spanish Cabinet, importing the recall of the French troops from the Peninsula, if any assistance should he given to POrtuguese rebels, or any movement directed Uanist the Portuguese frontierly the Government of his atholie Majesty. And these several acts of the Kings Fer dinand and denies are represented to the world as satisfac tory securities far their bona fide intentions of peace and . forbearance towards Portugal.—Now we beg permission to avow that such " securities" are in our judgment no . more than mute paper, and absolute humbug. When the . Preach Cabinet in 1823, declared that its assemblage of troops upon the Pyrenees was actually but a cordon said raire, and when Louis XVIII. indignantly reprimanded as sane) , libellers of his royal honour mid policy all those who accused him of a design to invade the Spanish nation, thr same King openly converting, a few menthe afterwards, the same cordon eandoire into an army of observation, and than into an invading army ;--when we recollect such re. cent illustrations of the utter dishoneky and perfidy of the language on which such confident and fats, reliance was placed,. as well'hy Spain as by Great Biitain, it is not too touch icor ua to confess that mortis from the Court of his Meat' Christian Majesty would go in any future case for then nothing. When, again, Ferdinand swore a greater number Of oaths to the Cortes in a tWelvemouth than an Old Iteiley witness does in seven years, and then the ma- Mein. it suited his convenience, swore that all his former, oaths were no better than it mass of perjuries ; why, who but-ft downright idiot would believe•a syllable that was spoken or written by such 'a creature on 'ally sub ject where he had any int .Erest iii uttering: falsehood ? But we are flared the necesaity of arguing against the honour of this Bourbon dynasty from any former premises. In spite of the injunctions of neutrality penned by band, and of the positive orders issued.. against comae:, miring rebels, or, assisting hostile movements against Pors NO, tho fact gives the lie to the declaration. So far from tbeyebellions Portuguese being disarmed, removed from the • frontier, end dispersed, the whole world now knows that they were suffered to retain their arms—that - they were kept in positions contiguous to the .frontier— and finally, that they were organized, and marched against Portugal in regular columns, and from several points, with the full concurrence of the " neutral" Spanish authmitica. url the part of Spain, therefore, is an act of tined, and open ; a manifest attack upon the ally of Fsngland, -whose interests we are pledged by the faith of,,treaties, and by the acknowledgment of the Minister himself, to protect ; a pledge whieh this Government can never evade by pretending to listen to impudent pro testations of neutrality. So again with regard to France. • She has recalled her Ambassador. .What is that to us Has she recalled her troops? or a man of them ? No ; she is in military possession of Spain ; her capital ; her ports; her gairkon , 4, She has rendered all the , Spanish troops disposable for an attack upon the frontier of For• takel near which they are consequently assembled in seves .ral corps of observation, to support and reinforce the in riding columns of rebels. A simple al ternativeconstituw; ,the hinge on which this whole question as between the Courts of-St. James's and the Tuileries may be said to torm ' Canning need only say to M. Villele, you either can prevent. the invasion of Portugal or you cannot. .If you can, why don't you ? If you cannot, England must . Madrid he garrisoned by a French force, wl sett leaves the Spanish troops ilisposeable, there is no reason which France, at least, cast urge which should prevent • England from releasing the troops of Portugal by sending a "division of 3,609 or- 4,0g0. British troops to form the garrison of - The gist of the libel, in th e case of the King against 'Hunt, would seem to be the co m p ar i ng o f M. Bochsa to 'the Devil, and the suppoiitio n that he had been introdu ced into the Royal Academy of Music., i n t h e a mmo. , of the Devil, to find the chaPlain ,of the Academy in work, and to show the boys and girls of the Institution, a by his example, that the patronage of the great h as no thingto de. with honesty or decency." Tn f ib fi „ v4 .. tion of Mr. BreugharrObat the prosecutor Would not apply fora criminal infOrmation, because he must deny, c,ia „ mh, the charges contained in the publication of which he coin olained the Lord Chief Justice, in h is char g e to , the r Jury, made .innwer that., " though that is generally true, when you look at .this publication, which I really am of opinion is a libel, I don't know what he could deny, ex cept that he is not the Devil." The Lord Chief Justice, like many. other ingenious men, proves a little too much here. If the only thing which could be denied by M. Bochsa is, that he is not the Devil, then the only thing of importance afilinied of him is, that he is the Devil. Then, if it is Hot nees!iary for lion to deny that be is the Devil, this mot be, that ne rine could possibly believe that be is the Devil ; and, therefore, the terming hint the Devil is of th e came importance :nearly. es :the terming him Preeer. John. But the truth is, that the observation of the Lord Chief JuStice is a piece of special pleading. The force of the _libel is the charging him with being a spirit, while he. really iti4 Very substantial piece of living flesh, but the chur. ging him with the qualities uniformly attributed to the Devilby all good Christians. Some of the attributes are even specified by the defendant, when he speaks of Beelzebub, shewing, by his example, that the patronage of the great has nothing to do with honesty or decency. What the prosecutor had to deny, therefore, was not that he was the Devil, but that he did not possess all or any of the legitimate attributes of the Devil. The comparing a man to Bill Soames would be no more a libel than the com- wing him to Rusty-fusty, were it not pretty generally down that Bill Soames was sent on his travels to a coun- try, much frequented by gentlemen of the profession of the law, for something else than the building of Churches. The laW, indeed, says, that a man's feeling must not be hurt; and it is diflieult to say exactly what may hurt a man's feelings. We remember, in a very clever Comedy, one of the characters has a vet) , narrow escape from it Spanish Grandee, whose wisdom he meant to compli ment, by comparing him to Solomon. Unfortunately the Spaniards are not Bible readers, and the Grandee flew out into a passion at the indignity of sitt old Christian being compared to a Jew. Still, it is presumed, in such a case, . the terming a man a Solomon, would hardly be allowed by a Jury to be an injury, eleept it happened that he had had several wives at one time, when, of course, he would be entitled to find fault with the comparison. The sophistry of the Lord Chief Justice reminds us of an anec dote in " Fox's Book of Martyrs," respecting a Doctor Buckingham, Prior of the Black Friars, in Cambridge, and the celebrated Latimer. The Friar objected to the read - - ing the Bible, least the ignorant people should be led astray by literal acceptation. " Every : speech," said . Latimer, " bath its metaphors and like figura tive significations, so common and vulgar to all men, that the very painters do paint them on • walls and houses. As for example (sayeth he, looking towards the Friar that sat over against him), when they paint a Fox preaching out of a Friar's Cowl, none is so mad to take this to be a Fox that preacheth; but knoW well enough the meaning of the matter, which is to paint out unto us what hypocrisy, craft, and subtle dissimula tion lieth hid many times in these Friar's Cowls, wilting ti thereby to beware . of them." When a Friar was com• pared to a Fox, the libel 'was in Comparing him to a beast, the attributes of which are " hypocrisy, craft, and subtle - dissimulation." The compa ring him to a Lamb, we sup pose, would have been complimentary, just as the com paring him to a Goat might have injured him in his pro fession, by making husbands averse to have their wives confessed by him. The comparing, then, M. Bochsa to the Devil; was neither injurious to him because the corn parison suggested certain known qualities of the Devil, or it was not injurious because it suggested nothing tangible. In the former ease, the - possession of the known qualities could haVe been denied ; and if the poisession of the qualities could not be; denied because unknown, there could be no injury, and consequently no libel. So much for the • Venerable Chief Justice, the Devil, and M. Bochsa. The New Times and the Courier, we perceive, have become alarmed ut the verdicts in these cases; and the Courier puts a very strong case - in illustration of his opposition to the principle involved in the convictions in the Court of King's Bench. " Let us imagine," he says, " for a moment, that the principal actors, in what the French pleasantly call, 'the affair of Fualdcs,' had escaped justice, and by the inscrutable decrees of Providence, which sometimes permits wretches to escape the gallows, or the guillotine of their own country,that:theymay, infest this—let us Aumiolie that those miscreants, after coolly butchering their victim, and bringing a hog to lap pp the warm bloood of the dying man, had come over to England to snperintend'an Institution established for the advancement of public morals ; and that some paper had mentioned the atrocities of which they 'were convicted, would any Englishman have thought it wrong to prevent crime and in. fainy from being raised to the level of integrity and honour ?" We have not the slightest doubt, that if our contempo rary hail slandered one of the principal actors in the "affair of Fualdes," by hinting in his Journal that he wits not fit for the superintendence of an institution for the advance m'ent of public morals, or for the enjoyment of the edifying society of the Venerable Archbishop of York, on a prow onion for indictment, the Lord .Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, whose impartiality is beyond suspicion, would have given the very same charge to the Jury which he gave in the ease of Hunt. Nay, if, by a flaw in the in dictment, the man who ate five of his companions at Vim Dieman's Land had had the good fortune of a man who lately escaped on account of a flaw, in an indictment in New South 'Wales, having wantonly cleft a poor man's skull with an axe (it not having been stated in the indictment whether the skull was cleft by the edge Or the back of the axe), and if this cannibal, after serving his time, were to have returned to his Father-land, and our Contemporary had chosen to remind his neighbours of hit, former propensities, the Lord Chief Justice would haVe told the Jury that he had committed a libel, and charged them to find him guilty. What this Jury would have done it is impossible to say. A Juryman, who can make light of a twenty-four hours' fast, and who feels disposed to tun his stomach against the stomachs of the other eleven, can, as was lately instanced in a noted conviction, bring them round to his opinion. The thoughts of the hot joint smoking in vain at home is a dangerous temptation to a London Juryman. There can be no question, how ever, that the Jury would, on no conciivable ground, be any more entitled to acquit the courier, in the two sup, posed cases, than they were entitled to acquit Mr. Hunt, or the Printer of the Sunday liforaitor. The principle - of t h e law is . atrocious, and there is the evil. At present Judges charge according to law, and Juries find verdicts according as they feel. As the principle of the law cannot be carried consistently into execution it is so detestably bid, it is a mere toss up whether the Jury will convict or acquit. Much will depend on the state of the public mind at the tune of the trial. Now, we think we can account for the marked determination of Juries, at this particular time, to convict. In this country, in which criminal pro cedure may be said to be yet in its infancy, our Police Courts entertain cases of all sorts,--persons accused of murder and burglary, to the evidence against whom, from the very commencement, too much publicity cannot be given, having, 'after a serious examination of themselves and witnesses, been committed for trial, they are toid eeeded by some tradesman, or youth of family, who see ing. a watchman act, as he thinks, harshly to a prisoner, chooses to interfere, and for his pains is locked up for the night, to encounter the Police Magistrate next day, NO%v, the only thing in common in these cases that they are both heard in the same Court. The former demands publicity for the sake of both the accused and the public ; the latter demands privacy both for the sake of the individual and the public, because publicity often injures him, and consequently injures society by iin 7 pairing his usefulness. It is observed, by a foreign Lawyer, in treating of the difference between Police and Criminal cases, that " Police offences are trivial injuries, intentional or unintentional, and those actions or omis sions, which, in themselves, violate neither the rights of the State, nor those of a subject, but are prohibited from a regard for decency and good order. Criminal pro ceedings require, from their importance, the utmost pre caution, and the, observation of various forms. On the other hand, Police transgressions are seldom of any im portance, and in almost all cases publicity is not de sirable ; and so far from being a security to the per son punished, it would add to his suffering." Now, from the eitentristance of cases so very dissimilar as the In sfruction of a criminal proceeding, and the hearing of a Petty Police transgression, oacurrin at the same place, it too oft en has happened that the publicity essential to other, when i t the ends of justice in the one, has been also given to the wining has wrought great been thus injustice. We are to admit that the feelings of individuals have unneeessaril tortured by exposure of weaknesses to which y oi wanton liable. remember t ' he late Mr. Perry, men are occasionally 1% than whom a man of more kind and gentlemanly - f ee li ng y o ung men of _respe never existed, was, on one occasion, deeply hurt, the names of some twenty or thirty etebl e families, seized by order of some harsh Magistrate while amusing themselves with private theatricals, and locked up in the watchhouse, found accidentally their way into his newspapers. -Now Jurymen mix in the world, and annwing occasionally under these indiscretions orthe - PreSs, and not discriminating between the cases were publicity requisite, and where it not, punish not unfrequently the Press for cases where it is in nocent, for transgressions which they have no opportunity of reaching. The Judges again, who are crafty, hating publicity in all cases, take care not to enlighten Jurymen on the limits between the cases that ought and the cases that ought not to be punished, that they may avail themselves of the bad feeling excited in Jurors by the one to obtain verdicts in all. At the same time it must be all Owed, that there are greater difficulties in this, perhaps, than in any other country, from the barbarous state of our laws, in saying where publicity ought to end. In every other Christian country, we believe, the utmost punishment of a police case, properly so called, is a fine of a few shillings, or a week's confinement at most. But, in this country, a poor man is fined sixpence, perhaps, and has eleven or twelve shillings more of costs to pay for nutting, or some such thing, and if he fail to pay, is sentenced to a heavier punishment than that for manslaughter, namely, an im prisonment for many-months. The last . Salford Calendar abounds with these abominations in the eyes of Goil and Man. For instance, a poor man for breaking a window, committed on the 17th August, is, on the 23d October, fined 6d. and 9s. costs; awl failing to pay, remanded for three calendar months. Thus a sixpenny matter is made a half year's imprisonniait !—Talk of Austria and Prussia! If these petty cases were not noticed, there would often be no bounds to the tyranny which the badness of our laws enables. our irresponsible Magistrates to commit. A poor boy picks a piece - of horse-dung in a field; this is not a crime, of course,. but one of the most venial of police transgressions; ' but it shall notwithstanding be I punished more severey than a crime of the deepest dye : and the unfeeling 'Magistrate who fines him, with the al ternative of a long imprisonment, knows as well as that he will one day die, that he is not lining the wretched crea ture, but sentencing him to a gaol.—llloroing chronicle. The notice which Mr. Secretary Peel gave in the House of Commons, on Monday night, of moving fOr the appoint ment of a Committee tninquire into.the state of the Police in the districts around London, has not been given too soon. Late improvements, however, ere better than per petual-abuse, and we give the Right Honourable Gentle man credit for not allowing himself to be so enslaved by precedent as to discourage useful innovation. We think if the-motion was shaped so as to include a Committee of Inquiry into the state of the nightly watch of the metro polis, it would not be without sufficient reason. The alarming increase •of burglaries in' London-of late years calls loudly for inquiry. It is impossible that the trade in nocturnal plunder in the heart of London, as well as the ex tremities, could be so flourishing as it is, unless in limner ous instances the depredators were afforded facilities of entrance and escape by the collusion of those who arc paid to protect the property of the citizens. As to the state of the Police in the outlets of London, it is quite. a disgrace to a Civilised' country. The brutal outrages which bands of thieves have freqtrently committed with impunity at fairs in the vicinity of the metropolis, present the most undeniable evidence of the inefficiency of the police. Whether the people meet for recreation or busi ness, they ought to be protected, and as they are taxed very highly to support the Government, that Government ought to be always ready and able to afford them effective protection against the desperete violators of personal secu rity and law: Nothing shows more decidedly the want of wisdom and energy in a Government than the increase of boldness and conteMP - tnous defiance of the laws on the part of the ruffians that live by plunder and violence. It was only in the last auttutni that a ga»g of thieves exer cised terror and pillage through the neigbourhood of Bethnal-green, trimming and robbing all who came in their way at their pleasure, and levying contributions, without molestation, in every quarter. So audacious were they as to assail people in the open day, and carry away their spoils unopposed to the haunts or savage licentiousness.--- At present, it appears, a gang of burglars are spreading ' dismay throughoutliammeesmith,.. and in vain the police are invoked by the alarmed inhabitants• We trust that Ir. Peel's COmmittee will eoriduct itii(l finish its i glary, as to prevent, by salutary regulations, a recurrence of such scandalous enortnitieti.—Morning Herald. The mountain is delivered; the mouse has come fort' Poor Alderman Waithman ! what a figure did he cut last night ! Such a farrago of nothings! Such a stale hash of all that has been bandied about during the last six months, in the taproom journals of the metropolis! We read, and pitiedi Give us a etwity boy of two years' standing in any parochial school in Lond on , and we pledge ourselves he shall ;write better logic, better English, and better sense, than were uttered last night by this arbiter of ging hams, in the assembled presence of a British House of Commons. There he stood, face to.face ' with men, great in eloquence and Wisdom, prattling away his glib truisms, with that intrepid power of countenance, that plentitude of assurance, which the self-satisfied shop-keeper so naturally mistakes for equality, when he unexpectedly finds hiMself in superior society. But he achieved, his object we shall he told : he obtained. his Committee. Yes ; he did so. Mr. Canning—c Canning and Waithman brought into con tact! The majestic, stately lion, and the pert, frisking squirrel, side by side !)-.--Mr. Canning tossed down the sop to the Demosthenes of Fleet•strect, and thus the matter ended. The Alderman has leis Committee to in quire into the Arigna Mining Company ; but among the members of that Committee we do not find the names of Sir James Mackintosh, Sir Robert Wilson, Dr. Lushing ton, or Mr. Brougham. We have not room for further ob servation at present.—New Timm. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY, FRIDAY, D. 0. Gooch, R., Southampton—Crown, Southampton—l 0 Harrison, W., Nottingham—Rain, Nottingham-11 Latham, J., Liverpool—George, Liverpool-1, Melling grid Higginson, Liverpool—Office of Mr. Woods, Liver. pool—l° Miller, J., Norwich—Rampant florae, Norwich-4 Sheath and Co., Lincoln—Peacock, Boston—l 0 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be beard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Len. don, IV. 11, at Nine. Barlow, 11., Clapham, whitesrnitlt Blackwell, W., Wall's Qoarry, Minchinhanipton, Gloucestershire, builder Bradley, K, Edgeware-road, fishmonger Franklin, J., Richmond, carpenter MitoirthYi J.. Bayswater, schoolmaster Morris, J., Woolwich, hoot-maker Mussared, J., Junction -terrace, linen draper's assiStant Parker, J., Radford, Notts, lace-maker Phillips, J., Old-street, baker Sievers, P., Limehouse, provision dealer Smith, R.. Fish -street-hill, tax-collector Till e y, W., Kingwood, Wilts, brewer Townsend, R., Bristol, clerk Wilkinson, J., Bow-road, land-waiter Williams, Covent Garden, tailor COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Brecon, December 11, at Eleven. Griffiths, G., Aberailow, (healer The Mlle Riband, 'vacant by the death of the late Earl of Wiochelsea, is destined for hie Grace the Duke of Devon shire. It Is stated that the Bank of England Branch Bank at Manchester has caused a considerable increase of the quantity of Bank Paper in circulation, from the merchants and menufac n their drafts for Bank o f E ng l an di tuorteers9wtghnouathtlhe to epay%3 lc e hg n a t n o f e any commission. A sprig of fashion 'finding himself Seated recently at a public ftstival at the Freemason's tavern, between two trades men, (whom he discovered to be knights of the thimble) remark ed to his friend opposite, " what a pretty figure I cut between two tailors !" "You should bear in mind," replied his friend, that they may be young beginner', and perhaps cannot afford to keel) more than one gem between them." FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF DEC. 3. `Whitehall, Dec. 2, 1826. The King has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to William Pitt Baron Amherst, Governor General' of India, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, stiles, and titles of Viscount Holmesdale, in the County of Kent, and Earl Am herst, of Arracan, in the East Indies. The King has also been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Stapleton Baron Combermere, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and General and Commander of our forces in the East Indies, and the heirs male of his body lawfully brgotten, by the name, stile, and title of Viscount Combermere, of Combermere, in the County Palatine of Chester. Whitehall, Dec. 2, 1826. The King has been pleased to grant the place of one of the Lords of Session in Scotland to Alexander Irving, Esq. Advocate, in the room of William Robertson, Esq. resigned. Whitehall, Dec. 2, 1826. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Andrew Bell to the Church and Parish of Linlithgow, in the Presbytery and County of Linlithgow, void by the death of the Rev. lir. Dobie. Whitehall, Dec. 2, 1826. The King has been pleased to grant unto Mr. William GOldie, the office and place of Keeper of the Register of Seasines within the Sheriffdom of Duinfries and Stewartriea of Kirctulbright and Annandale, now vacant by the death of Mr. David Staig, late Keeper of the same. Commissions in the Corps of Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry. Henry Hope, Esq. to be Captain ; George Reid, Esq. to be . ditto. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Pala- tine of Lancaster. Bolton Squadron of Ycowanry Cavalry—Lieutenant lienry Smith to be Captain, vice Rothwtll, resigned ;. Cornet W. Gar nett Taylor to be Lieutenant, vice Merry, resigned ; Cornet John Longehaw to be ditto, Vice Smith, promoted.; John Woodhouse, Gent: to be Cornet, vice Taylor, promoted ; John Fletcher, Gent. to be ditto, vice Longshaw, promoted. Furness Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—Quartermaster W. Pos tlethwaite to he Lieutenant, vice Towne, resigned. Commissions in the Alfretan Independent Yeomanry Cavalry. Cornet John Chambers to be Lieutenant; Charles Mines, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Chambers, promoted. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. C. Ince, Craven-street, Strand, wine-merchant. Wasbrough, Bridges-street, Covent-garden, stationer. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. A. Watson, Blackburn, Lancashire, draper. ' J. Lay, Cheltenham-place, Lambeth, stationer. E. Hankins, Hereford, dealer. BANKRUPTS. J. Cayaer, John-street, Oxford-street, tailor, to surrender Dee. 8, 15, at twelve, and Jan. 16, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners. Burnt and Nield, King-street, Cheapaide. N. Turner, Allhallows-lane, tish-dealer, Dee. 15, 19, at ele ven, and Jan. 16, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Saun ders and Heawood, Upper Thames-street. R. Finch, Eghant, Surrey, grocer, Dec. 12, 19, at nine, and Jan. 16, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Henrich and Stafford, Bueltingham-street, Strand. L. Barnes, Heywood, Lancashire, cotton-spinner, Dec. 27, 28, at twelve, and Jan. 16, at one, at White's Hotel, Manchester. Wheeler and Bennett, John-street, .Bedford-row ; Helsel!, Mid dleton, Lancashire. A. Richardson, Manchester, victualler, Dec. 12, at eleven, 19, and Jan 16, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Teague, Cannon-street. G. Whicher, Petworth, Sussex, apothecary, Dec. 18, at three, 19, at eleven, and Jan. 16, at three, at the Half Moon Inn, Pet worth. Tyler, Petworth ; and Hilliard and Hastings, Gray's- Inn-square. J. Webb, Nailsworth, Horsley, Gloucestershire, grocer, Dee. 15,‘at four, 16, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the George Inn, Stroud. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London; and Wathen, Stroud: _ _ J. Salter, Lyncombe cud AVilleombe, Somersetshire, florist, Dec. 13, 16, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Bath: Price, New-square, Linemln'a Inn ; and Turner, Bath. M. and 11. Holt, liulme , ; Manchester, dyers, Dec. 21, at two, 22, and Jun. IG, at eleven, at the Blackfriani Inn, Manchester. Hurd and Johnson, Temple; and Buckley, Manchester. I'. Jones, Ynysmarchog, Llywel, Breconshire, cattle-dealer, Dee. 14, 15, and Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Bear Inn, Llandilo, Carmarthenshire. Thomas, Llandilo. T. Griffiths, Abergele, Denbighshire, corn-factor, Dec. 13, 14, awl Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Denbigh. Douglas, 'Fantleld-court, Temple; and Williams, Evans, Horne, and Wit. llama, Denbigh. C. Laue, Oxford, builder, Dee. 12, 13, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Lamb and Flag, Oxford. Bridger, Angel-court, Throg mot ton-street ; and Cecil, Oxford. J. Grant, Barnsley, Yorkshire, grocer, Dec. 20, at four, 21, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Public Office, Barnsley. Menet, Barnsley ; and Pocock, Bartholomew-close, London. J. Strong and I. Dodds, Church-street, Durham, engine builders, I)ee. 21, 27, at eleven, and Jan. 16, at one, at the Turk's Head Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Williamson, Gray's-Inn ; and In ledew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and Moor, Durham. I'. Smith, Liverpool, hatter, Dec. 18,. 19, and Jan. 16, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Norris, Johu-street, Bed ford-row; and Ryiner and Norris,,Alanoliester. J. Levett, Rowley, Regis, Staffordshire, farmer, Dee. 14, at fitie, 15, and Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Goode and Dudley, Woreesterahice ; and Jessop and Jordan, Thavies Inn. E. Moon, Worthing, Broadwater, Sussex, grocer, Dec-14, at twelve, 21, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Arundel. Tyler, Petworth ; and Hilliard a n d H ast i ngs , G ray ' s I nn-square . G. Hudson, Nw Mahon, Yorkshire, ironmonger, Dec. IR, at , six, 19, and Jan. 16, at. eleven, at the New Talbot Inn, New Mahon. Wilson, Greville-street, Hatton-garden, London; and Allen, Mahon. J. Duncan, W. Clegg, and T. Hollins, Liverpool, merchants, Dec. 21, 22, and Jan. 16, at one, at the George Inn, Liver. pool. Crutnp, Liverpool ; and Bottye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane. • M. Nelson, Preston, Lancashire, innkeeper, Dec. 27, 28, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Shelly's Arms, Preston. Barron, Pres ton ; and Mr. ?orris, John-street, Bedford-row. J. Bannister, 'Alerthyr-Tydvil, Glatnorganshire, currier, Dec. 18,19, and Jan. 16, at ten, at the Castle Hotel, Brecon. Bick nell, Roberts, and Blewitt, 'Lincoln's Inn ; and Bold and Vau ghan, Brecon. eleven, at twilve , and jAmnein jis s S i..u . ori . ‘nouvt l el: u r. E-buib, at ldings, Court.j , ul3ltealrnbt:yjul; Berkshire, draper, Dec. 12, 19, and glo6,hlf,ianal:it-street. Dec. u Uree r of 1 n co ; m a. J. Hulme, Museum-street, Bloomsbury, pawnbroker, Dec. I'2, 19, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Tan ner, New Besingliall-street. G. Wilkinson, S. Bateson, and J. Meggs, King's Arras-yard, merchants, Dee. 15, at twelve, 22, at two, and Jan. 16, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Spurr, Copthall-buildings. R. C. Reynard, New Bond. street, tailor, Dee. 19, el, and Jan. 16, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Mayhew, Chancery-lane. H. Walker, Preston, Lancashire, corn-merchant, Dec. 29, SO, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at Blanchard and Bickerstaff's Office, Proton. Blakelock, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-street, and Blanchard and Bickerstaff, Preston: C. Osborne and J. Osborne, Pall-mall, tailors, Dec. 12, 19, and Jan. 15, m at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Tann e r, N ew Basi ngh all-street. .Dee. 28, at el even , a t DIVIDEVIDS. S. Steeling, Nolo, Doroetshire , the London Tavern, Poo --B le. Pt!well, Dover, Kent, m ill er , Jan. Guildhall,Canterbury—.G. M ea d s , B at h, I, at eleven, .at the High-street, Bl ooms b ury, b oot , hatter, Jan. I, at twe l ve , a t t h e A ngel Inn, Beth—W. Pigott, Norwich, grocer, Dec. 27, at four, at the borse-deale.r, W°°ltsliteun'Court of Conuni ss i oners— J . , Old, white swan. Bridgewater, Som ermienabire, innkee p er, Dec. 28 , at eleven, at the I n t i t a n k , e C r, h j ic a h n es . s ttr— at ts te . n, at Bridgewater -- 3 . Read, R egent-street, linen-draper, at the Court of Commis s i oners— W . Dement, Slid- Dec. 29, a t e l even , at the Court o f Sud bury, o i.y w , ; s, I,inait;oitickn: linen-draper, Commissioners --J• S. Radfitrd, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, J an . 6 , e t ten, at the Georg e I nn , Ki ngston-upon-Hull—W. iaakaon , noffieek, Leeds, Yorkshire, corn-miller, Der. 29, at Leeds —J. Dobson, Hesleth-with-Bec- Dec. 29, at ten, at the Office of , the p Li at Court tnreaiisght oi Lancashire, House, r grocer, reon, Lancashire—A. Hooper, Worcester, innkeeper, Dec. 26, at ten, st the Hop Market Inn, Wor cester—W. Welmsley, Manchester, merzhant, Dec. 26, at one, at the Star Ititio. 11 fincitvater...W. .erttt. J. ClAtky, Wilyractoreide, tiiemi,saarit,6l Brampton, Derbyshire , cotton twist mannfactureri, Jst. 8, al eleven, at the Angel Inn, Chesterfield. CERTIFICATES--Dac. 26. T. Piper and G. Dewatrey, Dorking, Surrey, bankers—J. Stillman, Bath, ironmonger—A. Watson and J. Watson, Black burn, Lancashire, haberdashers—A. Hooper, Worcester, innkeeper —J. Webb, Copthall-buildings, merchant—N. Cavenagh ands H. Browne, Bath, bankers—S. Hoekly, Union-street, Bish o p s g e, tea-dealer—A. H. Turner, Mile End, builder—J. I. Holbird, Beech-street, Barbican, boot-maker—W. A. South, - High-street , Southwark, chemist—R. Booth, Bishop Wearmeuth, Durham, ship builder—l). Castello, Old Broad-street, merchant --T. Ash worth, York, turner—J. Wynne, Stafford, shoe manufacturer-- T. Crosley, Wakefield, Yorkshire, currier—H. Day, Bristol, dealer—J. Burdwoml, Devonport, linen draper—W. Maine, Clif ton-street, Finqruty, currier. • PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Ti. G. Gunnell and Co. Salisbury-square, printers, (as far as regards R. T. Crueefix)-...J. Richardson and S. ?Morris,Bir mingham, factors—E. Savigny and I. Greea, Worcester, chemists —S. Hall and G. F. Urling, Regent-street, dealers in lace--C. P. Hill and W. H. Surman, Ventuor Farm, Isle of Wight, farmers —S. Nicholson and P. Barnard, junior, .Ghtinford Briggs, Lin colnshire, drapers—T. and E. Hutton, Bey Chapel, Lancashre, cotton-spinners—G. Martin and D. Bailey, Lane-End, Stafford shire, manufacturers of china—S. and J. Brooks, Kingston-upon- Hull, perfumers—J. Ingham and J. Leigh, Manchester, confec tioners—G.. Hirst and T. Bennett, I3arugh, Yorkshire, boat builders-R. and A. B. Burnett, Tetney, Lincolnshire, farm er ' --W. Watley and J. F. Marling, Eldey, Gloucester shire, a nd cl°- •thiers--11. and T. Claxton, Norwich, tailors—R. J. Bill Ce., Plymouth Iron Works, Glamorganshire, iromnasters—N. Partridge and S. Clutterbitek, Bowbridge, Gloucestershire, dyers—T. Briggs and J. Mould, Lincoln's Inn-Fields, erosive, .—J. and W. Stlb, Hinckley, Leicestcrshire,'hosiere —W. and Co., Ponty-Moile, Clamorganshire, grocers--W- an ` G. Norton, Manchester, warehousemen. THE MARKETS• (From the L ondon A c e e e ed rylLmited,_and the av 'e er w ag P e ri s e a . SUGAR-The leCuorfr each Current h a dla";:rderiidloi•i•o/t ex. demand for Muscovades last week became . 400 casks, but the holders \rem sconfident fi . I► • o o lig ar prices, mid that the alteration was so entirely owing to the late transactions that. they would submit to no lower prices to facilitate sales. There was no reduction in the cur rency. The deliveries again favourable, from the warehouses lust week are an there i' " i r.able exceeding that of last year 1,700 casks, a further reduction of the comparative stock about 1,500 s the Market, ; the report would no doubt, have au effect on India House 'h on account of the commencement of the Tea e dose of the day the purchases of Moro vades by are private contract were about 70011116.; the prices without t alteration. The public sales of Burbadoes Sugar 0-day, 153 hhds. went off with briskness at rather advancing . prices, 645. to 705.; the 4 05 bags Mauritius were withdrawn. The Refined Market gave will hi " week to S. per cwt., but several holders kept OD in the a t' • tradc.-Molass es vet n ici pation of the revival of the e % very heavy. The Market this morning was without. variation. The Wholesale Grocers are • e not purchasipir - In East India or Foreign Sugars sales of - no quence were reported. CoeFEE.-The C If dull ; few • .o ea Market last week became vtlY public sales were brought. forward i_ hold`' . as we generally keep Coffee with some firmness, and large I' eels are entirely taken out of the Market there oil evidently a heaviness ; yet o f about the' trade, though no inuei - any consequence were good ordinary B esalthis I azil, sold at 495. There were ihrci Pub.' lie sa l es forenoon, 497 bags ordinary to gnod ordinal toH I v. i nah, all taken in 455. to 48s. ; there did not spe r ea . single buyer ; 205 bags good ordinary St. Deenagl f taken in at 50s. 6d., 50s. being offered by two patio °- re used ; the other was it small- parcel of ordniary Pka" whim, forming no criterion of the Market. The P rices of l Coffee are supported, but there is no.briskness ; bet ice are of opinion there are large buyers at low price& HUM, BRANDY, AND tIOLLANDS.---The fOlVailCO ill (lit prices of Rum appears to have checked the demand; only small shipping orders have since been executed, but the prices appear rather advancing. Proof Lee wards have iii _two instances been sold at •2s. 7d. ; fine ci rang. have Rums .45., but the general price of 22 to 31 over IS 3s. 61 of the gunge t i a . 3s. 9d. The request for Jamaica is chiefil ties suitable for home consumption. nntody is still 1 1, , with firmness.-Geneva is so scarce, that for pale 2s•°" is asked. At a late hour more sales of tine Rum are re ported at 4s ; Bland) • higher, 1823 sold it 39. id; , is i 1825 held at 3s. till. a 3s. 7d. 11}..Alp, FLA*, AND TaLLow.-The advices received for ' St. Petersburgh, stating that the frost. had set inlaveitisicYd on the 2d instant, accompanied with snow stoops , . i a° . a on to the great and increasing consumption in Ent,'" 6 ii peered to have some effect on the Market it j foil _ . . 0 higher than the prices of Friday. Hemp and Flax t er little varied. At s late hour Tallow advanced ' 9d: hig a than on I' • riday. lid Fni er.-The demand for Fruit continues genera 0.. extensive; the request has been particularly for the ,:ivi Figs. There has also been a good demand for SPine",s. and Smyrna Fruit, but only Where lower prices w ere ' ll ' l ' v milted to. A public sale of Nluseatel Raisins e ves Ivo tempted on Wednesday, but we believe the who,l, c Let iv taken ill. The public sale of old Currants went o ff ',I, tt " t 80s. a 86%; new Valentin Raisins in boxes 625, old 505.; old Denia in baskets 3 dent °s2s. f 0 01 INDIco.The holders of Ind i g o are so conil -- o e hi g h er pr i ces t h a t many large par cels are svithdrawiel issi sale; the general premium on the late India 00 0 icke d is still 4d. to Bd. per lb. on th e Indi g o generally, end P parcels 10d. to I. d '1 the CorroN-The 6otton Market continues sten ) _ list ce 4oo purchases for the week ending last night inclusive,d " of 150 Swats, 50. a sfd. ; 250 13engal, 51d. t i i. sl , • ; lo p, Madras, .sd. u 5/d. ; 50 Bowed, 7d.; 1 ) %;e 1 9 7"0 bugA 6d. duty paid. By public sale this forean) lot, g r middliug to gt , oti fair Boweds, all talco, except sue 61d. a 6 tOl id. ' energl• SPICES-Spices are particularly lie, a nd a r c g ly offered on lower terms. lately egosot Dyewoons-The demand for Dyeatoods O, limited, and the priees nominal. 'fowaxds the ev ioe, last week the request for Logwood appeured to r in bol 1, ot about 300 tons sold, Jainaica anti St. L only direc o St. ueia itos. l: (1 to Si. las. The request continues, but is large Th parcels, and when they can be bought' 14 i ls i r" , The f e ollowing is a comparative statement of hyper prat ten months London, Liverpool 00 and Gla'Sew ............ ... ' 1826 ...... 8) - 0 ........................................... :. 1826 ...... I 8, 04 0 ......... .. .. . .................. : ....... .. 1824 ...... 16 1 1 2 a t o TEA-The sale at the India House commence t id. morning, Bohea, sold Is. 5,4 d. a Is. 1 lid., being .ehe'alul. per lb. dearer than last sale. Congous common 21.,,,00, a 2s. 9id th® ••3 . i good 2s. 3d. a 25.4,41.; only a fcw of t gous sold id. dearer than at last sale. trsdo ,t it t ll. WooL-i-There is little alteration in the Woo l 7,,,, tic h • imports compared with last year are attracting .„40,t0 tendon. Total imports into London, Bettingß and 1; 1 bo g, 28th November 182.5, 106,503 baga ; . F826,,8° MARRIED. , o n lb e In Edinburgh, at the Right Hon. the Lord Provost s; 5, o f 29th ult., Lieut.-Colonel commandant Wm, Dough , blob the Hon. East India Company's Service, on the Rene, Wil t ol d Went, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late J. Waite, sq• ° Burlington-street. DIED. of tlock -street. : • aok • u tr g u CI : : ju t e irlf r .tat °Du ; of St. Paul's, Bristol i daugh ter bei 0: t}eAk iitif:lv:.riv,lii.lia.tiiii:orrn. Alde rso n, On j o liv n eiimit 'r e ; ifs Of Si.f At Richmond, Surrey, 00 the t2d inst., Lady Pike, se Rose Price, Bart. • On the 30t11 Nov. in Kensington-square, in her id' Y es 6 Cecilia, wife of Charles Brume, Eq4l. , Iw°' R . N. s'tole" On the 4th inst., Mr. Joseph Rack:troy, at Ws house in , cutter-street, Shoe-lane, in tbe 61 St year of "'Me' ---- Prints and a t tine